This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. In this pursuit of being healthy, wealthy, and wise, I'm going to focus today on wealth.

So I was reading a blog about Kenny G.

Actually, it was about money and dividends and stocks.

But the writer was talking about Kenny G,

the jazz saxophonist, the guy with the curly long hair,

you know, with the jazz, he'd play the saxophone to the side,

and I think it's like a soprano

sacks well did you know that Kenny G is a very wealthy man now you probably say of

course he's a wealthy man Karen he sold 75 million records worldwide of course he's wealthy no no no

His wealth comes from the stock market in particular one stock, Starbucks.

So the story goes, Kenny G's uncle knew Howard Schultz.

They were friends.

And Howard Schultz at the time had these coffee shops

in Seattle, everyone was raving about and his uncle

was one of the first investors in what we now know is Starbucks.

So he told his nephew Kenny G. about how it, he introduced him to him and in a

CMBC interview Kenny G talks about meeting Howard Schultz and how impressed he

was. He was like the guy that was passionate and he really believed in the vision that he had.

And so Kenny G decided to buy stock in this new burgeoning company called Starbucks.

This was back in 1988.

Now, if Kenny G put $10,000 into Starbucks in 1998,

and I imagine he put more than $10,000 into Starbucks in 1998,

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